Awesome symptom no. 15
Failure to take on others people's ideas about duty
It may sound odd to call this a positive! But, in our world, self-discipline is (illogically) something we impose on kids 'for their own good'. People get bent into the standing rules and norms of our society, and spontaneous joy becomes a guilty luxury, or even a distant memory.
Autistic children often can't be easily made to internalize this kind of 'self-discipline'.
(Could this be, partly at least, why some therapies and programs for autistic children allow for some drastic measures that are no longer considered acceptable in the education of allistic kids?)
#Autism #AutisticJoy #ABA #BehaviourModification